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“Connected Worlds: the Caribbean, Origin of Modern World”. This project has received funding from the European Union´s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement Nº 823846. European Union´s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement Nº 823846 Peer reviewed

We are already living in a new time. Our time makes both the digital and society move from an era where institutions and people have stable and fixed roles (at least most of the people, most of the time). Considering the context of a networked society and on the verge of the so called digital transformation, both universities and their library services need to provide best answers to incoming challenges. The talk will follow a discussion of the ways in what such transformation can evolve and what are some of the main challenges to face.

Digitale transformatie en de impact ervan op interactie en communicatie ispartof: Voka Ontbijtclub Hageland location:Sint-Joris-Winge date:9 Jun - 9 Jun 2022 status: published

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This lecture considers the complexity of challenges of the agricultural transition from the perspective of farmers, who act at the intersection between the ecology, economy and policy. The lecture will start by providing an overview on the resource requirements for our global production chains of life stock and meat, grain and legume farming and say some words on the human diet, and food and feed conversion efficiency of energy-intake through food. This lecture also places a fresh emphasis on the development of local knowledge and locally specific arming and nutrition practices that are adapted to local environments, as a necessary complement to agricultural science striving to make universal claims. This leads on to basic insights on needs for knowledge production in agriculture, and merits and limitations of action research and engaged research, raising questions on how farmers, scientists and citizens might better collaborate to inform choices in food production and consumption. For the future there are some indications on a new trend on new more decentralised governance of the food system including citizen’s involvement in French organic certification and Community based Auditing and citizens science in communities in Australia to work with farmers on reducing environmental impacts and address ensuing trade-offs for farmers as a community.

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation, but with substantial regional differences in the speed of this transformation. In this paper we show that the COVID-19 pandemic favors the prepared region: regions with a high quality entrepreneurial ecosystem seem to be more adaptive in the sense of revealing a more rapid digital transformation during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper we analyzed this spatially uneven digital transformation with data on (1) startups (new retail web shops) and (2) established firms (new entrants on the largest e-commerce platform in the Netherlands) in the 40 city regions of the Netherlands.

Viele der zur Darstellung medieninduzierter Veränderungen und Unterschiede genutzten Begrifflichkeiten und Ausdrücke produzieren Leerstellen und Wortnebel, weil deren kontextspezifische Bedeutung nicht oder nur unzureichend expliziert wird. Sie halten weder einer sprachwissenschaftlichen noch einer medienphilosophischen Analyse stand. Anhand der drei prominenten Oppositionen 'offline/online, analog/digital und real/virtuell' zeigt der Vortrag, warum aus Sicht des Referenten die am häufigsten genutzten Ausdrücke den Gegenstand 'Online-Beratung' bzw. 'Online-Kommunikation' nicht nur nicht angemessen beschreiben, sondern in einigen Fällen Mystifizierungen produziere. Many terms and expressions used to describe media-induced changes and differences produce vagueness and word fog due to insufficient explanation of context-specific meaning and readers often remain confused. Under these conditions those terms do not stand up to linguistic or media philosophical analysis. On the basis of the three most common oppositions (offline/online, analog/digital, real/virtual), the lecture tries to show, why these expressions do not adequately describe the subject 'online counselling' or 'online communication', and - furthermore - disseminate mystifications about the subject.